Committee to mull West Virginia teacher pay hike
It's her way of supporting the walkout, which has kept more than 270,000 students out of school. "We will not keep any overhead". Stafford, a Charleston seventh grader, said that since the strike began, he's attended sleepovers and played Xbox games.

County under High Wind Advisory Monday
Winds will increase across the area today , causing areas of blowing and drifting snow with reduced visibility and hard travel. Heavy snow is possible, with accumulations of 6 to 9 inches, with localized amounts up to 12 inches, the weather service said.

Share on Twitter WhatsApp betrayed who sent your messages
The feature was spotted by WABetaInfo - the update tracker blog for WhatsApp - in the Android beta versions 2.18.70 and 2.18.71. Currently, the feature is available in Android beta version and WhatsApp is expected to roll it out to stable build very soon.

Kimmel Lectures Oscars Attendees On Sexual Harassment
The founders of Time's Up did not ask actors to wear black, though they did encourage people to sport "Time's Up" pins . According to the NY Times , Kimmel will be bringing up the #MeToo and Time's Up movement in his opening monologue.

BJP usurped power through proxy in Meghalaya: Rahul Gandhi
The return of the Gandhi scion has come amid criticism for not being with his party when it suffered losses in North East. Two of the three remaining states - Karnataka and West Bengal - are under the radar of BJP's master strategist Amit Shah .

Kent homes without water after pipes burst
A Tweet from the water supplier said: "We're sorry to customers in Ashford Lenham who are waking up to no water this morning". Homes had been left without water since 1pm yesterday and a water collection point was set up by South East Water.

Dominant services sector picks up after gloomy January

United Kingdom services activity grew more than expected in February, supporting economic growth and keeping alive the prospect of an interest-rate increase within months.

The seasonally adjusted Nikkei India Services Business Activity Index fell from 51.7 in January to 47.8 in February, its lowest level since August.New Delhi: The Indian services sector contracted in February and fell to a six-month low, as new work orders suffered amid weak underlying demand conditions, says a monthly survey. Anything above 50 denotes growth in the sector.

Chances of interest rate rise in May are on the up as Britain's services sector shrugs off the Brexit worries to beat forecasts

Despite a brighter performance from services, economists expect the United Kingdom economy to grow by 0.4% for the first three months of this year, in line with the final quarter of 2017.

Employment growth accelerated to a five-month high in February, driven by stronger than-expected sales growth and subsequent efforts to expand business capacity.

The composite PMI, which includes both manufacturing and services, fell to 52.2 from 52.8 in January. In fact, the services sector was growing faster than manufacturing for only the second time since the Brexit referendum.

The rise in the services PMI in February will help to assuage fears of a broad-based slowdown in the first quarter, instead suggesting that the economy has broadly maintained its pace, Paul Hollingsworth, an economist at Capital Economics, said.

NAGALAND: Rio meets Governor, stake claim for Govt formation
There will be a meeting of the party president and CM candidate Mr TR Zeliang with Mr Rijiju tomorrow", said a senior NPF source. The NDPP-BJP alliance on Sunday met Nagaland Governor P B Acharya and staked claim to form the next government in the state.

"Overall, the February PMI's suggest to us that UK GDP growth in the first quarter of 2018 is likely to match the 0.4% quarter-on-quarter expansion achieved in the fourth quarter of 2017".